Movies Like The School of Chaos

If you liked The School of Chaos (1975), a crime movie directed by Akihisa Okamoto, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Crows Zero (2007)
★ 7.1/10Also crime
The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself do it as he reminds him of his youth.
2
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
3
Revenge of the Ninja (1983)
★ 6.4/10Also crime
A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an American-Japanese criminal drug war.
4
Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also crime
The Accident Man is back, and this time he must best the top assassins in the world to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss, save the life of his only friend and rekindle his relationship with his maniacal father…
5
Tokyo Revengers (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also crime
An unemployed man learns that his ex-girlfriend was murdered. He suddenly finds himself travelling through time to his middle school years and has chance to change the future and save the girl. He aims to rise to the…
6
Case Closed: The Fourteenth Target (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also crime
Ran’s secret past revealed! Ten years ago, something happened between her mom and dad. Now, plagued by nightmares, Ran is starting to remember… Meanwhile, a murderous card dealer breaks out of jail to seek revenge. His…
7
The Garden of Sinners: Remaining Sense of Pain (2008)
★ 7/10Also crime
July 1998 - After a group of delinquents is found dead in their hangout place with all their limbs twisted and torn off, Aozaki Touko receives a request to find the murderer and asks Shiki for help. The main suspect is…
8
Under the Open Sky (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also crime
Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 years of sentence for murder. Hoping to find his long lost mother, from whom he was separated as a child, he applies…
9
Detective Conan: The Time Bombed Skyscraper (1997)
★ 7.4/10Also crime
Once brilliant teenage detective Shinichi Kudo was given a poison that reverted him to a 4-year-old. He's adopted the pseudonym Conan Edogawa so no one (save for an eccentric inventor) will know. Now he's got to solve…
10
Lupin the 3rd (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also crime
Interpol Inspector Zenigata begins a world-wide hunt for the infamous thief Arsène Lupin III, who, with his cavalcade of collaborators infiltrate a highly secured fortress-like safe named the 'Ark of Navarone' to claim…
11
Detective Conan: Sunflowers of Inferno (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also crime
Conan tries to track down Kaito Kid, who supposedly steals a replica of one of Van Gogh's Sunflowers paintings during an auction.
12
Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also crime
Shibuya, Tokyo, is bustling with the Halloween season. A wedding is being held at Shibuya Hikarie, where Detective Miwako Sato of the Metropolitan Police Department is dressed in a wedding dress. While Conan and the…
13
Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also crime
Six interlocking stories reveal Bruce Wayne's earliest adventures as Batman and the steps he took to become the grim avenger of Gotham City.
14
Lupin III: The First (2019)
★ 7.3/10Also crime
The iconic "gentleman thief" Lupin III returns in an action-packed, continent-spanning adventure, as Lupin III and his colorful underworld companions race to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Bresson Diary, before…
15
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
★ 8/10Also crime
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
16
Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence (2011)
★ 7.1/10Also crime
The explosion of a new Tokyo Subway line leads Conan and his friends in a snow-clad village. Here, after eight years, the little detective sheds light on the dynamics behind the shocking event that caused the death of…
17
Detective Conan: One-Eyed Flashback (2025)
★ 7.2/10Also crime
As police inspector Yamato Kansuke pursues a certain man in the snowy mountains of Nagano, a shadow suddenly appears in his field of vision. While he's distracted, a rifle bullet fired by someone grazes his left eye…
18
Detective Conan: The Last Wizard of the Century (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also crime
Kaitou Kid dares to challenge the police once more, setting his sights on the Russian Imperial Easter Egg. With the date, time, and place, the Osaka police force scrambles to stop him. But this time, Kid may have…
19
Death Note: Light Up the NEW World (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also crime
10 years has passed since the confrontation between Kira and L. Again, Shinigami sends death notes to the ground and due to this, the world soon falls into chaos. Tsukuru is a member of the Death Note special task…
20
Lupin the Third: Return of Pycal (2002)
★ 6/10Also crime
Lupin steals an extraordinary gem from a Mediterranean party, only to be interrupted by Pycal, the trickster "magician" who had apparently died fighting Lupin early in his career. Pycal, now armed with real magical…